FWIW, the guy who had the problem with the 77mm has two ZX-5n's, and had
the same problem with both of those bodies. I only tried it on the Mz-S.
You're comments on the Mz-S AF being variable with the lens used are
interesting. I've only had the camera for less than a week, and have mostly
used it with an FA 50 f1.7. AF seems to be excellent. I did some head to
head tests against the Pz-1p with a Tokina 400 f5.6 and Tamron 28-200 and
the MZ-S was significantly faster in AF, and seemed to lock on the subject
with little to no hunting. The Pz-1p hunted a lot more and had much more
trouble in low light.
I recently played around with a Nikon F-100 and did not see any major
differences in its AF performance vs the Mz-S, but I was just pointing at
things in the camera store. The red LED's in the finder and the
near-silent hypersonic AF were very nice, though.
Actually, I prefered the placement of the Mz-S sensors over those on the F-100.
- MCC
At 12:24 AM 7/25/01 +0200, Pal wrote:
>In spite of what Amatuer Photographer tests says about the MZ-S AF my
>opinion is that it sucks. I have noticed exactly the behaviour you
>describe with my 77 Limited. The MZ-S seems to focus more accurately with
>the 77 the closer the focusing distance is. In contrast, the MZ-S has
>brilliant AF with the FA* 200 Macro. The AF with the FA* 600/4 is
>hopeless. The problem if that if it loose focus it will practically
>speaking never find it again. Also if the subject is far from the focusing
>plane when you activate AF, theres a good chance it never finds it at all.
>When the MZ-S do find focus with the 600/4 it works well but ironically
>the Z-1p have much more reliable AF with that lens. My MZ-S AF performance
>varies enormously with what lens is used. I believe it a software bug or
>at least badly implemented AF software.
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